Difference Between Fascism and Nazism

Nazism is considered to be one form of fascism. Though both Nazism and fascism reject the ideologies of liberalism, Marxism and democracy, these two are different in many aspects. It is hard to make a perfect differentiation between the two.

Nazism and Fascism have their origin in the 20th century. While fascism was in vogue between 1919 and 1945, Nazism became popular from 1933 to 1945.

Fascism is a term that was originally referred to the fascists of Italy under Mussolini. Nazism on the other hand, referred as National Socialism, is in an ideological concept of the Nazi Party or the National Socialist German Workers’ Party of Adolf Hitler.

Fascism believes in the ‘corporatism’ of all elements in society to form an ‘Organic State’. They were not racial and had no strong opinion of any race. For Fascists, the state was the most important element. The Doctrine of Fascism, which is the authoritative document of the fascism, emphasis on nationalism, corporatism, totalitarianism and militarism. According to this Doctrine the State is all embracing and no human or spiritual value exists beyond it.

But Nazism emphasised on racism. While fascism considered state as important, Nazism considered ‘Aryanism’ as more important. The Nazism doctrine believed in the superiority of the Aryan race.

While fascism was based on certain political ideology, Nazism was blindly based on racial hatred.

Nazism considered class based society as enemy and stood for unifying the racial element. But fascism wanted to preserve the class system. The fascists almost accepted the concept of social mobility, while Nazism was against it.

Nazism considered state as a means for the advancement of the master race. But fascism considered state to be a form of nationalism. Fascists considered nationalism as something related to national culture as opposed to other cultures.

Coming to the etymology, fascist comes from fascio, an Italiam word, meaning a union of bundle. Nazi comes from the first two syllables of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which is the German language name of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.

Summary
1.Fascism is a term that was originally referred to the fascists of Italy under Mussolini. Nazism on the other hand, referred as National Socialism, is in an ideological concept of the Nazi Party.
2.For Fascists, the state was the most important element. But Nazism emphasised on racism.
3.While fascism considered state as important, Nazism considered ‘Aryanism’ as more important.

The above article on National Socialism (Nazism) is incorrect and biased. Nazism was NOT a racial philosophy,nor was Nazi Germany a racial state. It was a (political) NATIONAL SOCIALIST state. In his “Second Book”,written after “Mein Kampf”,Adolf Hitler described himself as a “Nationalist” and a “Socialist”. In his 1941 New Year’s Speech,Hitler said (about World War 2),”This conflict has arisen because two nations in Europe—-Italy and Germany—are challenging the world system,which is dominated by the United States and England,and the wealth interests who control those two countries.” You see? The REAL enemy of Nazism was CAPITALISM,not other races. In fact,towards the end of the war,Hitler had many different races fighting for him,in his “SS”; Norwegians,Arabs and other Moslems,Danish,Russians,Ukranians,Slavs,Indians…even Tibetans! So no,Nazism was not aboput race.

Everyone mind the moron who cites Hitler as his main source. If it hadn’t been for those Capitalist countries, Racial destruction in Europe would have continued on as a REALITY of the Third -fucking- Reich. Clearly, you don’t understand Nazi Genetics either; are you even aware of what the Aryan Race is? The Aryan People were an ancient warrior tribe that moved from European areas and into the land of India, the German Nazis claiming they were the purest form of this blood line. By reasonable inference we can understand why the the SS opened it’s ranks to non Nordic races, especially when the war against the Soviets turned against them. Now, in regards to Slavic units: Just because they were allowed to fight for Germany doesn’t mean they weren’t considered inferior troops; The fact of the matter is, the SS needed men who knew the country side and knew where to find Jews. Plain and simple, had Germany won the war, these SS units wouldhave been purged and dumped in nameless graves like the Jews they killed (No different then the extermination of the SA – Hilters main men in the 30’s).
Finally, you can’t ignore the fact that the SS, regardless of who was in it, was declared a criminal organization for the relentless slaughter of POW’s and Jews. As if Hitler claiming the Capitalist powers were bullying him excuses the Schutzstaffel of all the dead, the many suffering to this day of PTSD, and of course, the Holocaust.

Tl:dr – You stupid, ignorant Nazi puke learn the history before you pretend all the wrongs are right.

You should learn history too. Actually, if it hadn’t been for Soviet Union, Racial destruction in Europe would have continued on as a REALITY of the Third -fucking- Reich. 72 % of the German military forces operated on the eastern front. The western front was just an annoying distraction for the Germans.

You should read history outside the scope of the larger powers. If Operation Barb. had been even weeks earlier than when it actually occurred, Germany may have won the war right then and there. I recommend you take some time out of your busy day to read about the invasion of Greece which (though a German victory) led to German struggles in North Africa and a delayed start time for the invasion of the Soviet Union and their defeat to Russia’s winter.
Even if Russia hadn’t been invaded do you serious question that the the might of the industrial United States couldn’t have beaten Germany? My friend, if Germany had still been in the war by the time the Atomic bomb was developed I can assure you Germany would still be tasting radiation like Japan is. I’m not saying that’s moral or just, but the truth stands that when her industrial might is focused in for military venture, you better not fuck with large country that is the US.

Woah woah woah, simmer down sparky. If Germany had won against Russia till the end of 1941 they would have had all the resources needed to finish their own nuclear project ( German advantage in nuclear project was lost just at the end of 1942). If we put in the equation the good ally the Germans had in Japan the outcome of WW2 is clear. If Russia hadn’t been invaded at all the all German military forces would’ve been deployed on the western front. Guess who would have been the first victim of German war machine. Germany may have won the war well before 1945 when the atomic bomb was developed or even come first in the nuclear competition.

My feelings EXACTLY. RACISM was but ONE aspect of nazism. It DIDnt become encompassing until the war was almost lost. Simply stating that it is all about racism is avast simplification…..and gives this article a feeling of prejudice.

The op states facts, the rest call names. Who BETTER to describe naxism than it’s founder? He didn’t attempt to whit wash anything in MC, HE WROTE WHAT HE BELIEVED. He nay have been wrong, he may have been fueled with hatred and contempt, but HE FORMULIZED NAZISM,and he NEVER attempted to hide what he believed. Why is it so hard to look at hitler honestly?

Racism and anti-semitism was the selling point because a lot of germans felt that they are scammed by jewish in particular in every day life. Nazism can’t be based solely on racism for one easy fact: Hitler was part Jewish, Joseph Mengele, the Angel of Death, was Jewish and many many many nazis were Jewish. Hitler was only getting rid of jews that weren’t subordinates which has nothing to do with race but more with destroying the dissenters. I doubt a racist movement can win a war for one big reason: not enough soldiers.

Because he didn’t quote Hitler to show what Hitler believed.. he quoted Hitler to prove a point he was making about the nature and ethics of Nazi Germany. One line.
“I hate cats and it is the duty of all loyal Germans to hunt cats”
see?? seeee??? The German Nazi party’s REAL enemy was cats!! One quote dosen’t prove anthing.

@ Martin. You’re ignorant Martin. Nazis were indeed Capitalists.They were strongly against Communism. Hitler didn’t believe in social mobility and he thought elites(Whites) should rule Germany.The reason why he came to politics is because he was unhappy with the fact that Jews were controlling”White Germany” who supposedly ruined German economy and culture.Jews were selfish and they didn’t care much about ordinary non-Jew Germans.

Who cares why? Hitler’s control was ended. Most of Europe disliked the Jews before and during that time. It is always easy to blame someone for all your problems. Especially if you can’t face up to maybe they are all your own doing. Germany’s problem started after losing WWI. Which they helped start.

No, Mussolini was with HER. Hence we saw the attempt still towards one party rule, creating the problem while offering a solution as with Industrial Areas Foundation, then using the biased press to deter opposition candidates providing a choice. Maybe you had the complete answer but deleted the emails? Lets see. One Trillion raised by bonds to be out into deposit at even 1 percent. Collect interest of 10 billion yearly for HUD Housing. HUD sec 20 housing units at even a high 50,000 per equals 4000 per state yearly. Why could you not fix even one problem with 10+ Trillion the last 8 years? Even better spend half and the other goes back to the bond purchasers as it should. I must have made a math mistake as they spent 10 trillion and nothing was fixed but an even higher debt service added to the budget. Dang, this is survey level answers to which the elite cannot work with. Fedor’s 25 points make it pretty clear online if you cannot read a book.

Although,this article is well-written i must add that it emphasizes mostly towards the hate propaganda of the National socialists i know we all hate “THE NAZIS” coz its cool and easy hahaha. People always talk about “nazis” you should however should have begun by adding that the term “nazi” was actually a term among opponents of National Socialism because the nickname “Naczi”was used in World War I as a generic name in the German Empire for the soldiers of Austria-Hungary(..you know where that was going also it was used by opponents of NSDAP to mock them) its not a frightening term ^^
Next it is true that the “Nazism” regarded racism as a vital part in its philososphy there were several other useful and quiet rightly put brilliant plans for a greater design for strenghning a nation through socio-economics all you need to do to understand National-socialism is read Mein kampf(.. and no its not waste of time :P)some parts of it are hateful but that was required as it was becoming a ploicy at the time through which hitler could gain prowess and power, to understand this all you need is a simple precedent of Emil Maurice,so when stating something like that in an article you must also incorporate the facts,that,while the NSDAP called for “racial understanding” the term was highly overlooked in prospective to project the “anti-jew” policy of the party which at the time was political and less a policy.It only came into a much hateful effect after the “chicken-farmer”(Himmler) got his way.
Hitler was a politician not a racial profiler which showed after his return from Landsberg where he took steps to curb the movement of the S.A which was becoming a trouble for his political reforms.
Talking about differences in fascism and “Nazism” there are few since it cannot be denied that many of the ideologies that Hitler incorporated where from Mussolinis movement and his love for roman history.(sorry for a rea..lly long post)
(Ill make it short) ^^ ….basic differences b/w them is simple and its the outlook of there leaders while Hitler wanted to push and project Germany as a totalitarian super power of the world and in order to achieve that goal was ready to consider all methods possible, whereas mussolini so to speak didn’t have a grand design for Italy’s future, he did a lot of work to ensure for its present(for his reign) by indulging most of his effort in strengthening his Naval…^^) Armada altogether i believe when you wanna write about something you want others to opinionate upon you must first ensure you have justified your ends.
thanks for the effort and sorry for being blunt.

This article is incorrect in many ways.
Probably the main difference between Fascism and National Socialism is that Fascism as said.. Considers the state the most important. But NS is not based on racial “hatred” its based on the importance of ones country,people and culture.

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Written by : Prabhat S.
and updated on July 28, 2011

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